Coherence refers to the
a. mental process by which readers create information during reading that is not explicitly stated in the text.
b. principle that we process information in isolation before we link it to its context.
c. mental process whereby ambiguity is resolved online during sentence reading.
d. representation of the text in a reader's mind, so that information in one part of the text is related to information in another part of the text.
d
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A. ecological validity B. validity C. questions measuring verbal intelligence D. cultural bias
Plato is to _____ as Aristotle is to _____.
A) philosophical structuralism; nativism B) nativism; philosophical empiricism C) nativism; dualism D) dualism; nativism
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A) .3 B) 5 C) 10 D) 15
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